The main goal of the 1^st Scientific Meeting of Clinic and Communitarian Nutrition that is taking place today in this city, is raising awareness on the adoption of healthy diet habits in the population of Santiago de Cuba province.

The meeting will be attended by technologists, doctors and university graduates specialized in this field that aim at doing a contribution in order to improve the communitarian services of nutritional counseling and update the knowledge of the nutritionists of maternity, geriatric and psycho-pedagogical health centers of the province.

This event, sponsored by the municipal health office from Santiago and the Scientific Society of Clinic and Metabolic Nutrition (Nutrisan in Spanish) ´s provincial office, will provide the participants the chance to exchange experiences, analyze cases and attend conferences and presentation of papers related to topics such as educational intervention for the prevention of anemia in breastfeeding persons, training for nutritionists, nutritional counseling in Primary Health Care, and the effect of the nutritional contribution of the single fetus or the twin pregnancy, among others.